Pleasure of RuinsHudson, 1953 - 466 pagini |
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Pagina 25
... thought ; a Grecian ruin suggests rather the triumph of barbarity over taste ; a gloomy and discouraging thought . Then , دو " a ruin affording a kind of melancholy pleasure ought not to be seen from a flower - parterre , which is gay ...
... thought ; a Grecian ruin suggests rather the triumph of barbarity over taste ; a gloomy and discouraging thought . Then , دو " a ruin affording a kind of melancholy pleasure ought not to be seen from a flower - parterre , which is gay ...
Pagina 53
... thought- ful visitors to Tyre , such as Mr William Howitt , the Nottingham chemist , are apt to compose meditations of their own , often in verse , and often something like this : I thought I saw the palace domes of Tyre , The gorgeous ...
... thought- ful visitors to Tyre , such as Mr William Howitt , the Nottingham chemist , are apt to compose meditations of their own , often in verse , and often something like this : I thought I saw the palace domes of Tyre , The gorgeous ...
Pagina 101
... thought it completely a desert , Jerome in the fourth had a notion that the walls had been repaired and enclosed a park of game which the Persian kings hunted , Cyril of Alexandria that the place had be- come a marsh , Theodoret in the ...
... thought it completely a desert , Jerome in the fourth had a notion that the walls had been repaired and enclosed a park of game which the Persian kings hunted , Cyril of Alexandria that the place had be- come a marsh , Theodoret in the ...
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THE STUPENDOUS PAST | 40 |
GHOSTLY STREETS | 255 |
THE HAUNTING GODS 311 | 313 |
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